Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-09-17

The railroad washOut at P6ntsno turns out to be much more serious than at hrst reported. So far as can be learn ed the two covered bridges resting on solid stone butments, were picked up and carried bodily away. One Of them about 50 feet long is said to be lying on the Hat on the north side Of the current. In addition to the two bridges the en- tire trestle work and much of tbe em- bankment has been taken away. A wrecking train is at work from both ends of the break, but 1t will in all probability be several days before trans fers can be made. But pending the sub sidence of the waters if IS impossible to tell the actual amount Of damage done.
 Grapes and peaches were cheaper in
 Tucson to-day than ever before. Messrs. c. Sehgman & Co. purchased two entire carloads snd auctioDed them of to the highest bidder. Grapes sold for one dollar per crate of eight four pound boxes. They were bought wholesale and retsIl for the same price. Every
 man, woman, boz or girl met on ;he streets had two four pound boxes two bits worth) of grapes, Peaches were sold Rt a similar figure. The old story of going like hot cakes was well illus ,rated in the sale of this fruit. Two wagons were scarcely able to haul them from the depot fast enough Co supply the demand. This fruit arrived here Friday and when 1t was found impossi- be to get them through before they were spoiled 1t w as adJudged best to sell them.
 The fire boys are said to have caught onto a new idse at the recent fire, that xill undoubtedly stand them well in the future. During the heat of the cOnflag- ration. smoke was seen Issnlng from Col. Durr's Old Corner which was piled full of wines, liquors, etc, and an effort was made to enter, but the doors beg heavy resisted all attempts t. force them ID. A soldier passing at the time offer cd himself for s batterirg rsm. He stiffened himself and was seized by msn on either side, who sEung him be- tween them with a will. Hisfeet struck ihe door with all the force his handlers could give The door WAS not only burst Opsn but wss torn from its hinges, the heavy sell being split from top tp bottom. Several barrels of beer and boxes. which had been piled against tle door from the inside were driven in and scattered sll over the the room. For tunstely no fire vas found, but the bat terjng ram point was well taken.
 The Rillito is on the rampage. This morning at 9 o'clock, at Nr. Wetrnore's place north of Tuscon. there was bu. little wster iu the river bed, but pre- ensly i: caIae with a roar carrying every thing before iG, and spreading over the bottom for hundreds o' yards in width. From the damage caused by previous rams, The Wetmore ditch w8s fortunate | ly exempt, but this time the water flow ed nearly two feet over the hesdgste, | which eventually succumbed to the | pressure. The hesdgste was eight feet high and built with the view of resist ing floods, but the present one exceed ed jn size all previous calculations. It | also cut away the embsnkment be- tween the river and the Hume and has in all probability carried away much O, ihe latter. It also carried away about fifty feet of hi= storage dam. The wa Ter in the river a the point where the Itch enters the Rillito, is running ten 'eet deep.